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Mantastic Podcast Notes Episode 2:

Welcome everyone to our second mantastic podcast brought to you by mancertified.com

Lets start off rocking, just let everyone know we were gonna lead by talking about the very serious topic of sitting on your balls but we decided to wait for our other set of balls to chime in. So state tuned for next week.

John Georgelis is Drift Tryking in Ludlow Vermont it is the sideways sunday event today.

Sean – that is one of the worst occurrences you can have during a normal day. For me it’s all about the under

Space exploration

Elon Musk

Being scared shitless and loving it.

Sean, I love roller coasters and scary movies but I’m not an adrenalin junky. I do nothing extreme like jumping out of a plane and I also won’t do anything that in the course of practicing a simple thing I can split my ball sack, break my face or cause internal bleeding and or anal leakage. I think guys that grind down staircase or kick flip over benches or flip motorcycles or snowmobiles are the craziest kind of whackadoo (BTW I’m trying to bring back the word whackadoo. James Gandolphini used it in a Sopranos episode about 10 years ago and I’ve always wanted to give it a shot so this is my first attempt.

Boobs. Fake?

Songs you hate for lyrical anomalies:

-Black Skinhead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLx11xq6X7Q

Sean – BTW can we just say that Kanye should be happy this is all CGI because he wishes he was jacked up like Nas and LL. Great tune, love Kanye think he’s a douche but I can’t deny his talent. “My Leather Black Jeans on?â€

-BMF rick ross  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MVzP4MaJ0

Sean – Guns like Red Dead Redemption???? I guess there is a Back to the Future DLC because ain’t no 9mm in the wild wild west.

Day of lists

Top Five Man Books of All Time

#5 Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Elves, War, Magic, Dwarves and White Wizard. Enough said. I know   there are some big time female fans but this was largely written for the men in the house.

#4 Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child – This isn’t literature for rocket scientists. This is a big dude kicking ass. The books are filled with bravado and fights and faux witty dialog, every women Reacher comes in contact with is tall and athletic but not enough to be hard, pretty but more cute than beautiful and almost every book describes them in a pair of blue jeans. Shallow? Yep pretty well written? Yep, and pure escapism, fluff.

#3 Mitch Rapp Series by Vince Flynn – Vince Flynn died last year and with him one of the greatest American novel ass kicking, son of a bitch characters in modern literature. He makes Jack Reacher look like a cream puff because he has real depth and Flynn had real inside knowledge of how government works. There is always this internal struggle between the clandestine services and the Department of Justice that makes things real interesting and points to the fact that Flynn may have had some high ranking friends in government. In fact that was always a rumor that the US government wondered where he got his intel. Think Tom Clancy meets Jason Bourne but better. When I heard the news of Flynns passing I think I shed a tear. One of his books American Assassin is being made into a major motion picture.

#2 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – I know it’s cliché but while reading you can’t help but feel a sense of deja vu with what is happening between government and business. Even though it was written in the 50s it still feels relevant today. The author Ayn Rand is a polarizing character in her own right and you can love her or hate her but you can’t say her books didn’t move her readership.

#1 The Road by Cormac McCarthy – If you haven’t read it yet do you yourself a favor and do it now if you’ve already seen the Viggio Mortensen movie please go out, buy it and read it now. McCarthy does such a nice job of painting a stark world of grays and blacks and any joy the father and son have shines bright like the sun. If you have a son this one strikes home hard. The beautiful thing about McCarthy’s writing style is if you’re an average reader you can take the novel in at face value but if you take the time to dig under the surface a bit his prose is rich with underlying meaning and detail. I feel like its one of the finest novels written in the last few decades.

Sean’s Top Five Man Albums of All Time

#5 Beatles – Self Titled(White Album) – This is the Beatles album where I figured out that they could rock it out. I’d been listening to them on vinyl for quite some time, Introducing the Beatles, Meet the Beatles, A Hard Days Night, Help and Sergent Peppers were on heavy rotation but I never cracked open the White Album until I heard Helter Skelter by Motle Crue. I saw that it was a remake and I talked to my dad about it and he said go listen to the Beatles version it’s harder than Motle Crue. I loved the Beatles anyway but I loved them more after that. Helter Skelter, Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird are but a few greats.

#4 N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton –  Pretty much the genesis of gangsta rap and West Coast Hip Hop, this record is not for the feint of heart. With tons of violence, sexism and vulgarity it turned quite a few people off. However, it was the first rap super group with Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and MC Ren and it blew the doors off of rap as the world knew it. Suffice to say this wasn’t Doug E Fresh.

#3 Whitesnake (Self Titled) – Yep this is one of my favorites of all time and it’s a guy album. What guy under 50 doesn’t remember Tawny Katean crawling all over the hood of a Jaguar. Holy Moley. They had some pretty awesome tunes on the record too. Here I Go Again, Is this Love, Still of the Night, etc.

#2 U2 -War – “This song is not a rebel song, this song is Sunday bloody Sunday” The iconic words of the totally self absorbed Bono performing live on UK TV. This was the album before they were launched to the masses. I like a couple U2 albums a little better but there are non manlier

#1 Pearl Jam – Ten –  I’m not going with the also classic Nirvana Nevermind here. Although great I contend that 10 was a better album. This is one album that I’ve listened to so many times and it never gets old. Maybe because there are so many great memories attached to it but never the less is my favorite manly album of all time.